The Vietnamese syncretism becomes transpacific Caodaism Hoskins, Janet creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. hiu Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press 2015 monographic eng 1 online resource Caodaism is a new religion born in Vietnam during the struggles of decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war conflicts, now trying to reshape the goals of its four million followers. Colorful and strikingly syncretistic, it incorporates elements of Chinese, Buddhist, and Western religions as well as more recent outstanding world figures like Victor Hugo, Jeanne dAEArc, Vladimir Lenin, and (in the United States) Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. The book looks at the connections between othe age of revelationso (1925 - 1934) in French Indochina and the age of diaspora (1975- present) when many Caodai leaders and followers went into exile. Structured in paired biographies to trace relations between masters and disciples, now separated by oceans, it focuses on five members of the founding generation and their followers or descendants in California, showing the continuing obligation to honor those who forged the initial vision to obring the gods of the East and West together. The syncretism of the colonialperiod has been transformed by the experience of exile into a diasporic formation, at the same time that Caodaism in Vietnam has emerged from a period of severe restrictions to return to the public arena. Caodaism forces us to reconsider how anthropologistsstudy religious mixtures in postcolonial settings, since its dynamics challenge the unconscious Eurocentrism of our notions of how religions are bounded and conceptualized. Conversations with divinities: seance and the first disciples -- A spirit medium as nationalist leader: charisma and anticolonialism -- The spiritual sons of Victor Hugo: from seance to battlefield -- The fall of Saigon and the rise of the diaspora -- A "Caodaist in black" returns to live in Vietnam -- The divine eye on the Internet -- A religion in diaspora, a religion of diaspora. Janet Alison Hoskins. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-vt--- Syncretism (Religion) Vietnam Caodaism BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Spirituality Paganism & Neo-Paganism RELIGION Comparative Religion RELIGION Eastern Caodaism Syncretism (Religion) Vietnam Caodaismus Diaspora Synkretismus Neue Religion Buddhismus Taoismus Katholizismus Vietnamesischer Einwanderer Religionsethnologie Vietnam USA Kalifornien Frankreich Vietnam Caodaïsme Syncrétisme Viet-Nam Vietnamiens À l'étranger Vie religieuse Diasporas Vie religieuse BL2057.C36 H67 2015eb 299.5/922 11.98 Hoskins, Janet. Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014031902 (OCoLC)888025835 9780824854799 0824854799 9780824868611 0824868617 22573/ctt13n7n76 JSTOR http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3413803 http://site.ebrary.com/id/11035428 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=986534 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x1jg0 https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780824854799/ http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/illcencol-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3413803 http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3413803 http://site.ebrary.com/id/11035428 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=986534 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x1jg0 https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780824854799/ http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/illcencol-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3413803 P@U 140813 20200709060343.0 ocn905636927 eng